Ryan J. Montgomery
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Age: 22
From: Greensburg, Ky.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment, Kentucky Army National Guard, Campbellsville, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Ryan J. Montgomery was killed July 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee while his unit was conducting convoy operations in Baghdad.
Died: July 03, 2005
Kentucky National Guardsman killed in Iraq
By Bruce Schreiner
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. — For the second time in recent weeks, a Kentucky National Guard soldier is coming home from war to bury a brother killed in Iraq.
Spc. Ryan J. Montgomery was killed Sunday when his armored Humvee struck a roadside bomb near Baghdad, the Kentucky National Guard said. Two other Guardsmen in the same vehicle were wounded while returning from a convoy escort mission.
Montgomery, 22, of Greensburg and his twin brother, Bryan, were assigned to the same unit — Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion 623rd Field Artillery, based in Campbellsville. The unit, suffering its second combat death in Iraq, mobilized in November and deployed in January.
“Ryan Montgomery was killed in Iraq serving the country he loved,” his family said in a statement read Tuesday by Maj. Gen. Donald Storm, Kentucky’s adjutant general.
“Ryan was proud of his unit...